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author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-06-15 13:32:49 +0200 |
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committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-06-20 10:56:59 +0200 |
commit | a9455408b09395ecf4008bd998516ce2e9551bbc (patch) | |
tree | ee8323f0e78f583e9ff34c1cc9cd578674a6a132 /net/wireless/nl80211.c | |
parent | 6df653c71e8168e1df01118cc85cd84d0deeb583 (diff) |
cfg80211: make some functions static
Some of the functions to retrieve a device can
be static as they're used only in nl80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless/nl80211.c')
-rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/nl80211.c | 82 |
1 files changed, 82 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index a363ca17bfc..2d3541c5e05 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -70,6 +70,88 @@ static int get_rdev_dev_by_ifindex(struct net *netns, struct nlattr **attrs, return 0; } +static struct cfg80211_registered_device * +__cfg80211_rdev_from_info(struct genl_info *info) +{ + int ifindex; + struct cfg80211_registered_device *bywiphyidx = NULL, *byifidx = NULL; + struct net_device *dev; + int err = -EINVAL; + + assert_cfg80211_lock(); + + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY]) { + bywiphyidx = cfg80211_rdev_by_wiphy_idx( + nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY])); + err = -ENODEV; + } + + if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX]) { + ifindex = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX]); + dev = dev_get_by_index(genl_info_net(info), ifindex); + if (dev) { + if (dev->ieee80211_ptr) + byifidx = + wiphy_to_dev(dev->ieee80211_ptr->wiphy); + dev_put(dev); + } + err = -ENODEV; + } + + if (bywiphyidx && byifidx) { + if (bywiphyidx != byifidx) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + else + return bywiphyidx; /* == byifidx */ + } + if (bywiphyidx) + return bywiphyidx; + + if (byifidx) + return byifidx; + + return ERR_PTR(err); +} + +/* + * This function returns a pointer to the driver + * that the genl_info item that is passed refers to. + * If successful, it returns non-NULL and also locks + * the driver's mutex! + * + * This means that you need to call cfg80211_unlock_rdev() + * before being allowed to acquire &cfg80211_mutex! + * + * This is necessary because we need to lock the global + * mutex to get an item off the list safely, and then + * we lock the rdev mutex so it doesn't go away under us. + * + * We don't want to keep cfg80211_mutex locked + * for all the time in order to allow requests on + * other interfaces to go through at the same time. + * + * The result of this can be a PTR_ERR and hence must + * be checked with IS_ERR() for errors. + */ +static struct cfg80211_registered_device * +cfg80211_get_dev_from_info(struct genl_info *info) +{ + struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev; + + mutex_lock(&cfg80211_mutex); + rdev = __cfg80211_rdev_from_info(info); + + /* if it is not an error we grab the lock on + * it to assure it won't be going away while + * we operate on it */ + if (!IS_ERR(rdev)) + mutex_lock(&rdev->mtx); + + mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex); + + return rdev; +} + /* policy for the attributes */ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = { [NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, |